The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
My Virgen de Guadalupe is not the mother of God. She is God. She is a face for a god without a… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The deity of Christ is the key doctrine of the scriptures. Reject it, and the Bible becomes a jumble of words without… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so-… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are right and just in their actions. Abraham was willing to sacrifice… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The first thing Islam does is to destroy the self image of the believers. It convinces them that without Islam they are… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned .… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with… — Mortimer Collins Copy Share Image
I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
"Religions" of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod — Ovid Copy Share Image
I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy.… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Any and all religions are real, the genuine article, to their practitioners. There can never be one religion, prophet, or savior that… — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
I find the evidence for the deity of Jesus and the reliability of the Bible to be powerful and persuasive, and that… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz,… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Our journey is one of discovery on Sicily. Like the past Greek writers.orators,historians and philosophers we are all searching for answers on… — Daniel Peter Buckley Copy Share Image
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